isAbortError

Problem

You need to distinguish an abort-caused rejection from other errors — for example silently ignoring cancellations while reporting real failures.

Solution

Use isAbortError(value) to check whether an error has name === 'AbortError'.

import { isAbortError } from '@vielzeug/arsenal';

try {
  await abortableTask;
} catch (err) {
  if (isAbortError(err)) return; // cancelled — ignore
  throw err; // real failure — re-throw
}

Pitfalls

• Checks error.name === 'AbortError', not instanceof DOMException. Works for DOMException and any Error subclass with that name.

Related

• abortable
• abortError